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The whole world won't be satisfied until human rights abuses end in Cuba
Dan Christensen

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13 September 2011 Last updated at 08:58 GMT

Barack Obama says Cuba's reforms not aggressive enough

Recent changes in Cuba have not been "aggressive enough" to open its
economy or reform its political system, US President Barack Obama has said.

Mr Obama, speaking to Spanish-language correspondents in Washington,
said Cuba remained a "throwback" to the 1960s.

Cuba, under a US economic embargo for nearly five decades, has this year
moved towards some economic opening.

Asked about Mexico's drugs conflict, Mr Obama said President Felipe
Calderon was right to take on the cartels.

President Obama said the Cuban authorities had indicated they wanted to
make changes to allow businesses to operate more freely.
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I don't think Mexican people want to live in a society where drug
kingpins are considered to be some of the more powerful individuals in
society"

President Barack Obama

But, he said, there was no evidence that they had been sufficiently
aggressive in doing this.

"And they certainly have not been aggressive enough when it comes to
liberating political prisoners and giving people the opportunity to
speak their minds", Mr Obama said.

Cuban President Raul Castro has been introducing some changes including
allowing Cubans to work for themselves.

The Cuban government this year also freed the last of 75 dissidents
jailed during a crackdown on dissent in 2003.

But Mr Obama put the situation in Cuba in the wider international context.

"You are seeing enormous changes taking place in the Middle East just in
the span of six months, you are seeing there are almost no authoritarian
communist countries left in the world, and here you have this small
island that is a throwback to the 60s."
Mexico's challenge

President Obama has moved to ease restrictions on Cuban-Americans
travelling to the island but a gradual thaw in ties has been disrupted
by the imprisonment of a US contractor.
Troops stand next to confiscated communication equipment at a navy base
in Veracruz on 8 September 2011. Mexican authorities regularly display
equipment seized from traffickers

The US has repeatedly demanded the release of Alan Gross, who is serving
a 15-year jail sentence for bringing illegal satellite equipment into Cuba.

For its part, Havana regularly calls for five Cubans jailed for spying
in Florida to be released.

In the interview, President Obama rejected the argument that Mexico
should try to find some kind of accommodation with drug gangs as a way
of ending the bloodshed.

"I don't think Mexican people want to live in a society where drug
kingpins are considered to be some of the more powerful individuals in
society," Mr Obama said.

Peace could not be achieved by negotiating with people without scruples
or respect for human life, Mr Obama said.

In his view, President Calderon had taken a courageous decision to
tackle the cartels.

"I believe that, as difficult as this time is, ultimately Mexico will be
stronger if it does not give in," Mr Obama said.

Some 40,000 people have died in drug-related violence since Mr Calderon
began deploying troops against the drug gangs in late 2006.

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